No one orders drinks when my sim ’tends bar’

@crinrict  I had the chance to have another sim tend bar in a different, older save from the one mentioned in my prior post. The venue on my second attempt is a user made nightclub that I have in Oasis Springs. Nothing I tried to distract the bartender worked but the game decided to do a shift change for bartenders so I had the sim use the tend bar option after the game's bartender left his post.

At first the sim just stood there and then suddenly, quickly mixed 3 drinks in a row. NPC sims then started leaving the bar stools to stand behind them but he got an occasional drink order. Leastwise, he went in spurts of making multiple drinks and setting them on the bar. This time, however, he got absolutely no tips for serving drinks. I've now seen 2 outcomes in 2 different saves. The outcome as posted before with no autonomous drink ordering without having to use order "drink for", which would result in 1 autonomous drink order with a tip given and as I've just described with sims ordering drinks but no tips awarded to the sim. BTW, the sim I just used isn't in the culinary career, he was just at a venue where I could try tending bar. I don't recall that career, or the mixology branch specifically, being a requirement to receive tips but maybe I'm wrong? In the past I've only really tried to use tend bar at a venue by a mixologist I'm playing.

At any rate, should you find the time to try in your own game, I'll be interested to hear what your experience is since I didn't get an identical result on a second attempt. Thanks for the link to the other thread, too.